Liberation Theology Quotes

. . . anyone who wants to elaborate relevant liberation theology must be prepared to go into the 'examination hall' of the poor. Only after sitting on the benches of he humble will he or she be entitled to enter a school of 'higher learning.

Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".

Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil

To be wounded by the suffering of others is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Self love and forgiveness is a liberation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is the key for self liberation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The core of liberation theology is profoundly "theologal" - that is, rooted in the very nature of God. You see, there's an immediate relationship between God, oppression, liberation: God is in the poor who cry out. And God is the one who listens to the cry and liberates, so that the poor no longer need to cry out. ( Leonardo Boff, p. 166)

Mev Puleo